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The Ancient Mariner
Coleridge
Many books have been written about William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that cover their biographies and make critical assessments of their work. In Adam Sisman's "The Friendship," for the first time the bond between these two poets is given center stage. ... How did their friendship affect their work? Sisman shows the ways that their bond created competitive tension and fueled their creativity to even greater poetic achievement than might have been achieved alone. ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge showed from his earliest years an astonishing
capacity. At three years of age he read a chapter of the Bible, and
entered the Grammar- school. At six years of age—the year of
Voltaire's and Rousseau's death—he joined the lowest Latin class.
He was a prodigy ; all the old women in Ottery agreed on that point,
and he agreed with them also, and went his own peculiar way. While
his brothers were romping out of doors, he was sitting by his
mother, reading the legends of Tom Hickathrift, Jack the
Giant-killer, the Arabian Nights, conquering or begging with
Belisarius, or wandering with Robinson Crusoe on desert islands in
dread of cannibals. Free Ancient Mariner More Poets |
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